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Empire of Liberty

A History of the Early Republic

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Robert Fass

Length: 30 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

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In
Empire of Liberty, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life - in politics, society, economy, and culture.

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Friends Divided

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
James Lurie

Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government.

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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Joel Richards

Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

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This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.

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Revolutionary Characters

What Made the Founders Different

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Scott Brick

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

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Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Paul Boehmer

Length: 19 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

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Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing 30 years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776. In
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view in which people were divided between the nobility and "the Herd."

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The American Revolution

A History [Modern Library Chronicles]

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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The American Revolution signalled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people. In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.

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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

By:
Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by:
Peter Johnson

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is known by us all as the first American.

History is to society what memory is to the individual. Without it, we don't know who we are and we can't make wise decisions about our future. But while the nature of memory is constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past 40 years. Historian Gordon Wood examines the sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important historians and their works.